The role of human basolateral amygdala in ambiguous social threat perception
2014; Elsevier BV; Volume: 52; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/j.cortex.2013.12.010
ISSN1973-8102
AutoresBéatrice de Gelder, David Terburg, Barak Morgan, Ruud Hortensius, Dan J. Stein, Jack van Honk,
Tópico(s)Memory and Neural Mechanisms
ResumoPrevious studies have shown that the amygdala (AMG) plays a role in how affective signals are processed. Animal research has allowed this role to be better understood and has assigned to the basolateral amygdala (BLA) an important role in threat perception. Here we show that, when passively exposed to bodily threat signals during a facial expressions recognition task, humans with bilateral BLA damage but with a functional central-medial amygdala (CMA) have a profound deficit in ignoring task-irrelevant bodily threat signals.
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